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SQ wraps up on-site portion of Lac-Mégantic probe

Five persons remain unaccounted for

Investigators gather under a tent as they search for victims through rubble in Lac-Megantic, Que., on July 14, 2013.

MONTREAL — With five persons still unaccounted for, the Sûreté du Québec has finished the evidence-collection phase of its investigation into the July 6 oil-train derailment at Lac-Mégantic — at least on the disaster site itself.

“We have the certitude that everything that could be done has been done” by provincial-police investigators and others who have been working inside the devastated core of the town, SQ Lt. Guy Lapointe told a news conference shortly before noon.

“And not only that, it has been well done,” he added.

A total of 38 of the victims have been positively identified by the coroner’s office.

The names of all but one have been publicly announced.

A total of 42 bodies have been recovered, of the 47 people believed to have perished.

The SQ had been treating the site as a crime scene.

It proceeded in a “methodical and strategic manner ... in difficult conditions,” Lapointe said.

With all the evidence it required from the site now in hand, Lapointe added, the SQ investigation enters the next phase:

The goal is “to establish, with the greatest degree of exactitude possible, the sequence of events.”

He made reference to a recent search warrant carried out at the Farnham offices of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, operator of the oil train.

“There are documents to be analyzed,” Lapointe said.

The force has not ruled out recommending criminal charges to prosecutors.